Friday, December 29, 2017

Open Access Journal: EX-NOVO Journal of Archaeology

Ex Novo is a fully peer reviewed open
access international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research
focusing on the multiple relations between archaeology and society. It
engages with contemporary perspectives on antiquity linking past and
present, and encourages archaeology’s engagement with theoretical
developments from other related disciplines such as history,
anthropology, political sciences, philosophy, social sciences and
colonial studies. Ex Novo encompasses prehistory to modern period, and
by exploring interconnections between archaeological practice and the
importance of the past in current society it encourages an exploration
of current theoretical, political and heritage issues connected to the
discipline.

Areas and topics of interest include:
politics and archaeology, public archaeology, the legacies of
colonialism and nationalism within the discipline, the articulation
between local and global archaeological traditions, the discipline’s
involvement in memory and identity, museum studies and restitution
issues. Ex Novo encourages dialogue between disciplines concerned with
the past and its relevance, uses and interpretations in the present.

Ex Novo – Number 2 (2017)

Ex Novo Nr. 2 Cover Image‘Metropolis’ @ courtesy of Daniel Egneus

Editorial

Who Owns the Past? Archaeological Heritage between Idealisation and Destruction

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.